He Couldn't Deliver, But Still Asked Sega for the Money: Jensen Huang on How NVIDIA Almost Died

"So what you're telling me is, what I contract you to do, you can't do, but you would like all the money on the contract?" "You got it, that's exactly right."
At Y Combinator's Startup School, Jensen Huang tells the story of NVIDIA's rough start: the technology it was founded on was exactly wrong, he bought three OpenGL textbooks with the few hundred dollars in his pocket, and he flew to Japan to tell Sega he couldn't build their console — but still needed the money. His advice to his 18-year-old self: you don't have to overcome life in one day, just overcome that morning.
With English & Traditional Chinese subtitles and a live panel of 103 vocabulary items.

Chapters
00:00 Cold open: three textbooks
00:15 Three textbooks
04:12 What makes a great company
06:12 Can't deliver, still need the money
09:04 A note to my younger self
11:13 How hard can it be?